unpronouncedadj.

1496–7 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 53 Fra this yond unpronuncit.

1532 in I. H. Shearer Sel. Cases Acta Dominorum Concilii et Sessionis (1951) f. 23 [Above decreet to continue] unpronuncit [till both parties compear and show their rights in the matter].

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie (new ed.) ii. iii. 59 The sharpe accent falles vpon the penultima or last saue one sillable of the verse, which doth so drowne the last, as he seemeth to passe away in maner vnpronounced.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cet Those [words] which begin..with H vnpronounced.

1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 64 Hail native Language, that..mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps, Half unpronounc't, slide through my infant-lipps.

1747 J. Robertson True Manner reading Hebrew iv. 106 The preceding Consonant..gave the same Sound whether the quiescent (as they speak) or unpronounced Letter ה was written after it or not.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. i. 35 He wanted her to seize his meaning unpronounced.

1866 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 474 Not the mispronounced word, but the unpronounced word, is to be his condemnation.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead i. iii. 44 He answered the unpronounced sentence.

2006 R. Bobroff Roads to Glory p. vii The Russian alphabet..contains two unpronounced letters.

1852 Sartain's Mag. Jan. 25/2 I marked then the rich resources of physical beauty that lay covered there and unpronounced.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 748 Although the grand systems in Zoology are unpronounced, there are still faint indications of them generally observable.

1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xix. 152 He wore a plusfour suiting of discreet checks and unpronounced bagginess.

2012 Pâtisserie & Baking Found. (Le Cordon Bleu Internat.) iii. 166 In vanilla ice cream, an extract can be used to flavor the otherwise unpronounced flavor of milk, egg yolks, and sugar that make up the base.